Climate and average weather in San Lazzaro

In San Lazzaro, the summers are hot, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are cool, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: early April to late June

Over the course of the year, the temperature in San Lazzaro typically varies from 1°C to 31°C, and is rarely below -3°C or above 36°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit San Lazzaro for warm-weather activities are from early April to late June and late August to late October.

Hottest
Jul
31°
Coldest
Jan
Wettest
Nov
83 mm
Driest
Jan
42 mm
Rain / yr
749 mm
101 wet days
Daylight
8.6–15.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
66 m
44.5°N
Clearest
Jul
35% cloud

San Lazzaro is chief town of the homonym municipality.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

San Lazzaro weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early April to late June.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in San Lazzaro, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.6 months, from May 28 to September 15, with daily high temperatures above 26°C. The hottest month of the year in San Lazzaro is July, with an average high of 31°C and low of 20°C.

The cool season lasts 3.5 months, from November 19 to March 3, with daily high temperatures below 13°C. The coldest month of the year in San Lazzaro is January, with an average low of 1°C and high of 8°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in July.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan81
Feb102
Mar155
Apr199
May2414
Jun2918
Jul3120
Aug3120
Sep2616
Oct2012
Nov147
Dec92

How hot and cold San Lazzaro really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, San Lazzaro feels like about 32°C (around August 2). About 3 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in August.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -1°C (around February 1), with roughly 67 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in February.

10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan88-11
Feb101002
Mar151535
Apr191989
May24241414
Jun29291818
Jul31312020
Aug31312020
Sep26261616
Oct20201112
Nov131467
Dec9902

Average hourly temperature in San Lazzaro

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on July afternoons, near 31°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

San Lazzaro weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan / 427.21.691.6
Feb10° / 617.71.710.12.6
Mar15° / 598.10.611.64.8
Apr19° / 7210.10.113.26.1
May24° / 14°709.4014.67.0
Jun29° / 18°588015.36.1
Jul31° / 20°497.10154.8
Aug31° / 20°557.9013.95.1
Sep26° / 16°668.1012.37.1
Oct20° / 12°728.9010.76.4
Nov14° / 83100.49.43.9
Dec / 638.51.28.71.8

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

San Lazzaro gets about 749 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 1.9 months, from around Mar 27 to May 23, peaking in April at about 35% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 22.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 83 mm over about 10 wet days; January is the driest, with 42 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 30 · 35%Jul 22 · 21%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan247
Feb278
Mar268
Apr3310
May319
Jun268
Jul237
Aug258
Sep288
Oct299
Nov3210
Dec279

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, San Lazzaro collects about 749 mm of rain across 101 wet days — roughly 62 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 83 mm, while January is the driest at just 42 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 30% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec426159727058495566728363
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan4272
Feb6182
Mar5981
Apr72100
May7090
Jun5880
Jul4970
Aug5580
Sep6680
Oct7290
Nov83100
Dec6391

Snow in San Lazzaro

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

San Lazzaro averages about 6 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Nov 19 to Mar 15 — about 3.8 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 1.5 days of snow and an estimated 6 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 31 cm of snow.

01234JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 27
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan26
Feb210
Mar13
Apr02
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov02
Dec18

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In San Lazzaro, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around May 22 and lasts for 4.4 months, ending around October 3. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 80% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 4 and lasts for 5.2 months, ending around March 11. The cloudiest month is November, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 59% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 23 · 81%Nov 15 · 40%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4852
Feb5347
Mar5743
Apr5446
May5545
Jun6832
Jul8020
Aug7822
Sep6931
Oct5248
Nov4159
Dec4852

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 19, brings about 15 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around December 19, only 8 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 6 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.07:544:54
Feb10.17:245:34
Mar11.66:356:13
Apr13.25:386:52
May14.64:537:28
Jun15.34:357:55
Jul15.04:497:51
Aug13.95:227:15
Sep12.36:006:18
Oct10.76:375:22
Nov9.47:194:40
Dec8.77:514:30

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

San Lazzaro averages about 13 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 8 and 20 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.6 months, from around Jun 9 to Sep 26. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 19 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is November, down near 8 sunny days — about 57% fewer than the July peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJul 1920 daysNov 138 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan11Mixed
Feb11Mixed
Mar13Mixed
Apr11Mixed
May11Mixed
Jun14Mixed
Jul19Bright
Aug18Bright
Sep15Mixed
Oct11Mixed
Nov8Mixed
Dec11Mixed

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In San Lazzaro, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.9 months, from around June 2 to September 29. The muggiest month is August, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 64% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 30 to June 1, and April is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 12 · 100%Aug 6 · 32%muggycomfortablehumiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1000000
Feb1000000
Mar1000000
Apr973000
May7125400
Jun34342750
Jul182736181
Aug112638241
Sep36322660
Oct6725700
Nov946000
Dec1000000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in San Lazzaro is steady company: average speeds sit near 8 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeMar 31 · 9 km/hJan 5 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb8calm
Mar9calm
Apr9calm
May8calm
Jun8calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Best time to visit San Lazzaro

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in San Lazzaro throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around mid April, San Lazzaro is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit San Lazzaro for general outdoor tourist activities run from early April to late June and again from late August to late October, with a peak score in the last week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 23 · 7.3

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan1.6poor
Feb2.6poor
Mar4.8fair
Apr6.1good
May6.9good
Jun6.1good
Jul4.9fair
Aug5.1fair
Sep7.0good
Oct6.4good
Nov3.9fair
Dec1.8poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit San Lazzaro for hot-weather activities is from mid May to late September, with a peak score in the last week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 22 · 7.6

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for San Lazzaro, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around July (highs near 31°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 8°C), pack a warm layer.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, San Lazzaro sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 20°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 7 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in San Lazzaro by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in San Lazzaro peaks around July 14 at about 8 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 22 at about 1 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 8 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 14UV 8Dec 22UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Moderate
Mar5Moderate
Apr7High
May6High
Jun8Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug7Very high
Sep5Moderate
Oct3Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in San Lazzaro

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in July the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan00
Feb00
Mar4.50
Apr73
May72.5
Jun8.54.5
Jul85
Aug7.53.5
Sep50
Oct10
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in San Lazzaro by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in San Lazzaro is worst in March — around 19 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateMar 1919 µg/m³Sep 1213 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan18Moderate
Feb17Moderate
Mar19Moderate
Apr18Moderate
May16Moderate
Jun16Moderate
Jul14Moderate
Aug14Moderate
Sep13Moderate
Oct15Moderate
Nov14Moderate
Dec16Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayReliably frost-free (≥90%)

San Lazzaro is mild enough that a frost-free day stays more likely than not even in midwinter. Nights are reliably above freezing from about March 7 to November 25 (264 days); outside that window a hard frost is an occasional risk.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecreliably frost-freeMar 790%Nov 2590%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan6531
Feb7028
Mar957
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov955
Dec7231

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. San Lazzaro banks about 2,306 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

01,0002,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar18
Apr118
May273
Jun401
Jul492
Aug478
Sep325
Oct175
Nov26
Dec0

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

San Lazzaro receives about 4.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.3 and 6.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Mar 18 to Sep 19. The brightest month is July, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.3 kWh/m² — roughly 81% less than the July peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 16.8 kWhDec 171.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.5Dim
Feb2.5Moderate
Mar3.9Moderate
Apr5.0Bright
May6.0Intense
Jun6.6Intense
Jul6.7Intense
Aug5.8Bright
Sep4.2Bright
Oct2.6Moderate
Nov1.6Dim
Dec1.3Dim

Where is San Lazzaro?

San Lazzaro sits at 44.5°N, 11.4°E, 66 m above sea level, in Italy. The nearest listed city is Bologna, 6.0 km away.

Topography around San Lazzaro

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of San Lazzaro.

Within 3 km, the terrain around San Lazzaro has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 170 m around an average of 72 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 599 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,113 m.

The land around San Lazzaro is covered by trees (33%), artificial surfaces (30%) and cropland (25%) within 3 km, cropland (39%) and trees (31%) within 16 km, and cropland (38%) and trees (36%) within 80 km.

3 km
170 m
16 km
599 m
80 km
2,113 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Bologna 6.0 km · Casalecchio di Reno 11 km · Castel Maggiore 12 km · Zola Predosa 15 km · San Giovanni in Persiceto 26 km · Imola 27 km · Cento 31 km · Vignola 32 km

Italy travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / F / L
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 69% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$43,309
2025
Happiness
6.6 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
97%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
0.6
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
5.3
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 513
Religion
Christian 81%unaffiliated 13%Muslim 5%other 1%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for San Lazzaro (44.4705°, 11.4085°, elevation 66 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).